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In brief: Post-discharge counseling helps hospitalized smokers quit

In brief

Post-discharge counseling helps hospitalized smokers quit

A review of hospital-based stop-smoking programs in nine
countries concluded that only the programs that continued after
inpatient treatment ended enable patients to remain smoke-free.

Dr. Nancy Rigotti, director of the Tobacco Research and Treatment
Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, collaborated with two
colleagues to analyze 33 clinical trials of interventions
conducted between 1999 and 2007. Programs were divided into four
categories, ranging from a single brief contact in the hospital
to a program involving counseling that extended beyond the
inpatient stay.